The city’s borough presidents have asked Mayor Bloomberg to cough up $1 million to provide salaries and staffs for their appointees to the revamped Board of Education, The Post has learned.

Under the secret plan, each of the five borough presidents’ appointees would get $200,000 apiece.

Of that amount, each appointee would receive a salary of up to $60,000 – or four times the $15,000 current Board of Ed members are paid.

The borough presidents are miffed that, under the school reform law penned by Gov. Pataki this week, no funding is provided for salaries and staff for their education appointees.

They’ve appealed to City Hall and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) for money.

“Each member from each borough on the Board of Education should get a stipend for $200,000 for their own office staff and salaries,” said one borough source familiar with the proposal. “Otherwise, how do you respond to parents?

“We want our representatives to be effective. You’ve got to have a secretary, a staff person, perhaps a lawyer. Who is going to analyze a $12 billion budget?”

To help keep costs down, the borough presidents said they would provide office space, phones and a fax machine in Borough Hall for their representatives.

Current Board of Ed member have offices at board headquarters on Livingston Street in Brooklyn.

But Bloomberg and City Hall immediately shot down the plan for funding the borough presidents’ appointees.

“That will lead exactly to the type of bloated bureaucracy that the mayor has been trying to eliminate,” said Bloomberg spokesman Jerry Russo.

Under the new law, the mayor controls the school system by directly appointing the chancellor. He also names eight of the 13 board members on a mostly advisory board, with the other five being tapped by the borough presidents.

The borough source, who requested anonymity, stressed the $200,000 is less than half the average allotment now provided to lame-duck Board of Ed members whose terms expire the end of this month.

The current board – which included two mayoral appointees – had a $4 million budget for staff, supplies, chauffeurs and cars.

That comes to $580,000 per member.

Critics have blasted the Board of Ed’s budget as bloated with patronage and unnecessary perks.

Borough Presidents and the Board of Education

Old Board of Education:

* Board members paid $15,000 a year, with the president getting $20,000.

* Total budget: $4 million, or about $580,000 per board member, includes staff and supplies, cars and chauffeurs.

New Board of Education:* No salary, perks or staff.

* Reimbursed for expenses.

Borough Presidents’ plan:

* Salaries of up to $60,000 for each appointees of the borough presidents.